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Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.